"There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us."

-- Geraldine Brooks

#Madness Quotes

“I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is not available to a gay writer.”
“You said, 'Theyâ€™re harmless dreamers and theyâ€™re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.”
“I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.”
“Expert victimologists estimate that 91.2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds.”
“As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.”

Source : Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2006). “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”, p.25, Penguin UK
“I have only slipped away into the next room, I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we still are. Call me by my familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used .... Play, smile, think of me .... All is well.”

Source : Henry Scott Holland, “Death Is Nothing At All”
“Some people brighten up a room just by leaving it.”
“For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.”

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